Exercise 4 [10%] A company uses an LDAP company's staff to access local resources. The company...
You work for EGS Testing Solutions; your company is involved in testing related to access control systems. A large, private fitness club contacted your company because their Web server was hacked. The fitness club has a corporate office with 50 workstations, 4 application servers, 2 e-mail servers, 2 Web servers, and 129 franchisees with 10 workstations and about 3,500 members at each location. Except for the equipment at the franchisees’ locations, all other equipment resides at the central headquarters. The...
Ashley Oakley was hired by the Battleground Nurseries (BN), a commercial nursery and landscape supply company in Oak Ridge, NC, as an Analyst in their newly-formed Project Office (PO). She reported to work and was assigned a small cubicle with an old laptop computer. Not what she had hoped for in her first job, but she was grateful to land her first job in a rapidly growing economy and resolved to give it her best effort. The PO reported to...
How can we assess whether a project is a success or a
failure?
This case presents two phases of a large business transformation project involving the implementation of an ERP system with the aim of creating an integrated company. The case illustrates some of the challenges associated with integration. It also presents the obstacles facing companies that undertake projects involving large information technology projects. Bombardier and Its Environment Joseph-Armand Bombardier was 15 years old when he built his first snowmobile...